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Elon Musk hopes he can top his self-driving cars with brain implants that will store all your dreams

BY NATHAN DICAMILLO @NathanAlec

ELON MUSK wants to get inside your head. In April, the Silicon Valley billionaire announced plans to launch Neuralink—a company dedicated to developing a brain-to-machine interface to cure brain ailments like paralysis and memory problems and help people compete with robots when the artificial intelligence revolution makes human brains obsolete. Musk says this will be accomplished by implanting tiny electrodes into the brain—allowing for things like downloading and uploading memory and casual brain-to-brain communication.

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Trump calls them “my generals,” a title their colleagues say makes them a bit uncomfortable. And now, six months into a chaotic administration, under an unpredictable president who many fear isn’t fit for the job, the skepticism that many of their friends initially evinced has been replaced by something
else: “relief,” says Johns Hopkins military historian Eliot Cohen. “These are grown-ups in grown-up jobs. God knows this administration needs them.”